Hi, I got piped out of amazon about 1.5 years ago. I joined another company at that point and I am doing well now.But after leaving amazon I had 2 weeks of unemployment days since I spent some time looking for a new job. Now I got an offer from fb. The hr was asking for a Justification for those two weeks. Will this be an issue or keep being an issue ? I am not sure if they will go back on the offer.
I thought that was an obvious reason one would think off. 2 weeks off and that too 1.5 years ago .. I thought cmon !
Did recruiter or any other recruiter ask you this question before you got the offer?
Justification for 2 wks.? Recruiters expect to be employed and on a payroll all life? Where are we heading!
this was clearly a trick to see if there was something you wanted to hide and that you are not feeling good about. Smart recruiter
I don't understand the trick. It is natural to say that I wanted a vacation. What can he infer from that ans?
He can get insight by your reaction, he probably didn’t care about your 2 weeks vacation. So if you feel confident and just say that you wanted vacations and got them this is good for you. If you feel very surprise by the question, and then tried to win time and not answering for a few seconds then were hesitating etc ... well this means that it was probably not a desired but imposed vacation, not that good for you.
Lol, just say you wanted to have a rest between jobs
Yep . Screw them if they reject me for this reason. Their loss.
They wont reject you. It’s very common to take a break between jobs. Two weeks is nothing.
Dude your recruiter might be reading this as well. You need to be more careful.
Did HR ask about the 2-weeks off or did they question why you were on unemployment? The latter is significant since you can't collect unemployment when leaving a job voluntarily. So they wanted to know whether you were fired for anything crazy. Probably not a big deal, but if it ever comes up again you should just say Amazon reorg'd and you were offered a voluntary severence. But of course you were so awesome that you got rehired somewhere else 2 weeks later. Puts the ball back in your court and you look like you're in demand. 🤘
To op, has fb run background check on you already? Asking because how do they even know you had a 2 week gap?
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Needed a vacation between the roles. That’s it.